Fuller House: When Nostalgia Goes Wrong

Nostalgia can be a good thing. Television shows from The Wonder Years to Mad Men to Freaks and Geeks have used nostalgia as a powerful tool to help tell interesting, unique stories. In the case of Fuller House, nostalgia is not a good thing. The jokes are terrible. The plot is paper thin. And, as cruel as it sounds, there is a reason that these actors haven’t been working much in the intervening years between the end of Full House and the beginning of this ill-advised cash grab sequel. The reason that nostalgia isn’t a good thing in Fuller House is that in this series, nostalgia is the only thing.

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